Jets Coach Suspended for Remainder of Season

By CBS Interactive staff

Updated on: December 13, 2010 / 10:54 PM
/ CBS News

New York Jets strength and conditioning coach Sal Alosi trips up Miami Dolphins cornerback Nolan Carroll during a 3rd-quarter punt return, Dec. 12, 2010. Alosi was suspended by the Jets for the remainder of the season.

(CBS/AP) The
New York Jets assistant coach who tripped a Miami Dolphins player during a game
has been suspended without pay for the rest of the season, including the
playoffs, and fined an additional $25,000.

Sal
Alosi, the Jets' strength and conditioning coach, will begin serving his
suspension immediately and have no access to the team's practice facility.

General
manager Mike Tannenbaum said Monday that Alosi will also not be allowed to
interact with any players or coaches "as it pertains to his job function."

Tannenbaum
says the team spoke with the NFL about the incident throughout the day, and the
league will issue no further discipline. Alosi said earlier in the day that his
"actions were inexcusable and irresponsible."

During a 3rd-quarter punt return, Alosi stuck his knee out as Nolan Carroll ran up the sideline, tripping up the Dolphins' rookie cornerback, who went down hard and appeared to hurt his knee on the play.

For his part, Alosi apologized in a statement released hours after the game:

"I made a mistake that showed a total lapse in judgment. My conduct was inexcusable and unsportsmanlike and does not reflect what this organization stands for. I spoke to coach (Tony) Sparano and Nolan Carroll to apologize before they took off."

He also apologized to Jets owner Woody Johnson, GM Mike Tannenbaum and head coach Rex Ryan.

"I accept responsibility for my actions as well as any punishment that follows," he added.

The incident provides Jets-haters, eager to take down a notch a team that's seen by many as more bluster and braggadocio than true championship material, even more ammunition.

The Dolphins' Channing Crowder summed up that feeling of resentment for the Jets after the game.

"They do what they do," he said. "They cheat and they talk junk and do all that stuff, but we beat the hell out of them today, so they can trip all the people they want to. I'll tell 'em to trip me. I would have broken that old man's leg."